The darkest hour of history || Acharya Prashant (2018)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Just as when the night is about to end, it is the darkest hour of the night, similarly

00:10man's history is going to end now and this is the darkest hour of history.

00:19History continues only as long as you have chance events.

00:26For history to be told, you must have unpredictability, right?

00:36Can there be history if everything is predictable?

00:43If everything is predictable, then you can have at most a milometer, a dashboard.

00:48You cannot have history.

00:57Man's utmost control, man's absolute autocracy over existence is soon going to end history

01:11itself.

01:17After that, it would be man and man's desire and history is about to end and this is the

01:24darkest hour of history, it would be very difficult to fight anybody.

01:39The evil lurks everywhere, all around you, within you and everybody is evil.

01:55There are no quantum separations.

02:02When you look at the Kurukshetra, you see a definite differentiation, don't you?

02:09What is the definite differentiation?

02:10On one side, you have Duryodhana and on the other side, you have Arjuna.

02:16There is a very clear distinction and so Krishna knows whom to fight.

02:22Now Krishna has the luxury to afford sides.

02:28A battle is on and Krishna looks at the battle and Krishna knows.

02:33I can pick one of the two.

02:35I can afford that choice.

02:37Today you cannot afford that choice.

02:43There is only Duryodhana.

02:46He won the Mahabharata long back.

02:52There is Duryodhana 1 fighting Duryodhana 2.

02:55What does Krishna do?

02:56Whom does Krishna support?

02:57And if Krishna appears in Kurukshetra, Duryodhana 1 and Duryodhana 2 would tie up and chase

03:04away Krishna.

03:30Malaria is out.

03:31Love is out.

03:34Caste system is on its way out.

03:36Untouchability is out.

03:38Racism is out.

03:41Misogyny will be out.

03:44What are you going to fight next?

03:47All that could have been fought will be fought and defeated.

03:58These are old and petty evils.

04:07Somebody said why do you want to turn somebody into an enemy?

04:12Why do you want to alienate someone if you can turn him into your customer?

04:20And desire only needs customers.

04:23I want this and I am willing to pay the price.

04:27If in today's world, untouchability is disappearing, it is not because people are discovering that

04:36at the core all are one.

04:39It is not because people are discovering that body and body are just the same.

04:47If in today's age, untouchability is disappearing, it is because of desire.

04:55If you come across a woman who is hugely gorgeous, would you want to not touch her

05:02because she belongs to an untouchable caste?

05:04No, no, that's too mean.

05:10And you are a liberal.

05:17Would you allow your liberal instincts to forcinate?

05:24Would you be defeated?

05:28Please understand.

05:36You are the recruiter in some firm and you want someone who can be productive because

05:46desire is related to productivity.

05:49You want more and more to consume and you get a candidate who comes from an untouchable

06:00caste.

06:01Would you reject him?

06:02No.

06:03Why should you?

06:06You would welcome him and embrace him.

06:11You are not embracing him out of love.

06:15You are not embracing him because you have suddenly discovered fraternity.

06:28You are embracing him out of desire, greed, usefulness.

06:39So these social evils that you have mentioned here are petty little things that desire will

06:45throw out of the window.

06:48Are you getting it?

07:01The great evil would be man himself.

07:06Man the God.

07:22You see, look at the age in which untouchability flourished.

07:25That was also the age in which sexuality was repressed.

07:33Was it not?

07:37The moment you set sexuality off, the moment you say sexuality is alright, untouchability

07:51cannot survive for more than 10-20 years.

08:05Desire has defeated all social evils.

08:09It is not social reform movements that have defeated desire.

08:14When the train and the bus came about, when public transport came about in India, 100-150

08:26years back, that was a great step towards the eradication of untouchability.

08:37The shudra would be sitting besides the brahmin in the railway coach because both desired

08:49to reach their destination and there was no option but to use the railways.

08:55And the railways didn't have separate coaches for separate castes.

09:04Desire defeats all the petty evils.

09:08Desire is the great evil that defeats all the petty evils.

09:13For the sake of desire, you can shake hands with your worst enemy.

09:21Don't you see that happening every day in politics?

09:25In national politics, in geopolitics, everywhere.

09:34Do you know what ended the cold war?

09:38The desire of the little Soviet republics to have a more economically prosperous life.

09:45Desire defeated the USSR.

09:51It was not the USA that defeated the USSR, it was desire.

09:56Desire will defeat all the petty evils.

10:00The cold war was defeated.

10:02Not one side was defeated, the entire war was defeated.

10:17A Hindu and a Muslim are fighting.

10:19You don't need to teach them the essence of religion.

10:22Just dangle some money in front of both of them.

10:25They will forget fighting.

10:28They both will run towards the money.

10:31So you see, all the religious discord has been taken care of.

10:37And you don't need a great reformer or guru for that.

10:41All you need is some money.

10:46You don't have religious communal riots in metros anymore.

10:54Do you have them?

10:58The last big one that we had was in Bombay in 1992, close to three decades now.

11:12In smaller cities, in suburbs, rural areas, that's where you have communal problems.

11:24Why?

11:27Because money is the greatest anti-riot force.

11:37Why riot with someone if you can consume him?

11:45If a Hindu can use a Muslim to make more money, should he kill the Muslim?

11:51If the Muslim can use the Hindu for some personal pleasure, should he kill the Hindu?

11:58Not at all.

12:03The day India and Pakistan are linked through thick and heavy trade, they will find it very

12:11difficult to fight among themselves.

12:15Because now the interests of traders on both sides will be at stake.

12:21They cannot fight anymore.

12:23You see, desire has taken out war.

12:27The curse of war has been defeated by desire.

12:34That's such a great thing.

12:37But who will defeat desire now?

12:42Who will defeat desire?

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